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Franklin K. Lane, Secretary, 



THE SIEUR DE HONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT. 









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Where Newport Mountain, the easternmost and boldest in the monument, comes 

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From National Geographic Magazine, "Washington, I). ('., copyright, 1916. 



THE Sieur de Monts National Monument was created by presidential proc- 
lamation July 8, 1916. It includes more than 5,000 acres on Mount Desert 
Island, Maine, directly south of Bar Harbor. In fact, its northern bound- 
ary lies witliin a mile of that famous resort. On the east it touches the 
Schoonerhead Bead. On the south it approaches within a mile of Seal 
Harbor. It lies less than a mile northeast of Northeast Harbor. It is surrounded, 
in short, by a large summer population. 

This superb area, for many years widely celebrated for its historical associations as 
well as its commanding beauty, includes four lakes and no less than 10 mountains. 
The lakes are Jordan Pond, Eagle Lake, Bubble Pond, and Sargent Mountain Pond. 
The Bowl Lies just outside the boundary line. The mountains are Green Mountain, 
Dry Mountain, Pickett Mountain, WTiite Cap, Newport Mountain, Pemetic Moun- 
tain, The Tryad, Jordan Mountain, The Bubbles, and Sargent Mountain. 

The lands included in the Sieur de Monts National Monument have never formed a 
part of the public domain. Through the patriotism and generosity of the owners, 
known collectively as the Hancock Cotinty Trustees of Public Reservations, they 
were presented to the United States for the benefit and enjoyment of the public. 
The creation of this monument extends the national parks service for the first time to 
the Atlantic coast. 

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Map of Sieur de Monts National Monument and surrounding region , Mount Desert 

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THE SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT. 

By George B. I>orr. 
Executive of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. 

IN recommending for the President's acceptance the Sieur de Monts National Mon- 
ument on the coast of Maine, Secretary Lane has widened importantly by a 
single stroke the scope and significance of the national parks development in 
America. For the first part the East, with its beautiful and varied scenery and 
crowded city population, takes an active part in that development and shares 
directly in its benefits. Ultimately every striking type of natural scenery in the 
country, east or west, should be represented in its most characteristic or inspiring form 
in the national parks system. 

In illustration of this ideal, the new reservation on the Maine coast is singularly 
interesting. There is nothing like it elsewhere on the continent. A noble mass of 
ancient granite that once bore up a dominating Alpine height on its broad shoulders 
has been laid bare by time immeasm-able and carved into forms of bold and striking 

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beauty by recent ice-sheet grinding. Tliis granite mass, surrounded Ijroadly by the 
ocean as the coast has sunk, constitutes with its ice- worn peaks and gorges and inter- 
vening lakes the national monument. The picturesque and broken lower lands 
between it and the sea, on which are the summer homes of men from the whole 
eastern country, form with the monument the island of Mount Desert, bearing still 
the name that Champlain gave it three centuries and more ago, when, exploring 
under De Monts's orders, he sailed into the shadow of its gi'eat eastern cliff on a 
September evening and beached his open boat on the Bar Harbor shore. 

He reached the island, drawn by the beacon of its sharp-cut peaks against the 
western sky, in a single, long day's sail from where is now the boundary between 
the United States and Canada; he left it, guided by Indians whom he found cooking 
their dinner in a cavern by the sea, to enter, as he conceived it, the mouth of the 
Penobscot River, which he ascended, by island-sheltered waterways at first and the 
true river afterwards, to the head of tidal water at Bangor. This tells well the story 
of where the new national monument lies. It is readily accessible; boat or motor 
will take one there by pleasant, easy ways, and through trains run down to Bar 
Harbor, at its northern base, from New York and Boston. 

It is a unique and splendid landscape, revealing the ocean in its majesty as no lesser 
or more discant height can do, and exhibiting wonderfully the interest and beauty of 
the northern vegetation. 



Further papers on the Sieiu" de Monts National ilonument may be obtained, with 
other information, from the custodian, Sieur de ^lonts National ^Monument, Park 
Road and Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine. 




Sieur de Monts Tarn from the entrance to the Kane and Piodrich paths. Friuginf 
it are seen the Schermerliorn and Eliot Woods. 

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Sieur de Monts Arboretum and Wild Gardens. The Bowl, a little mountain 
lake, 400 feet above the sea and deep in woods, that makes the foreground to a 
great ocean view. 





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A narrow passage on the Kane Memorial Path built along the Tarn side between 

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